The Daily Princetonian is the award-winning daily independent student newspaper of Princeton University. Founded in 1876 and daily since 1892, the Prince is among the oldest college newspapers in the country. Its alumni have pursued careers in journalism at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and have won the Pulitzer Prize.
In addition to the print and online editions, the Prince publishes The Prox, a news blog, Intersections, an arts and entertainment blog and hosts The Daily Princetonian Photo Store.
The Daily Princetonian, nicknamed the Prince, was the second college newspaper in America to publish daily. The paper, founded in 1876 as a biweekly publication named The Princetonian, became The Daily Princetonian in 1892 when it became a daily newspaper.
Produced by a staff of nearly 200 undergraduate students, the organization has an annual budget of more than $600,000. The Prince has a daily print circulation of 2,000 and its website receives roughly 5,000 hits every day.
The Prince is fully independent from Princeton University. It is directed by a graduate board of trustees, consisting of former editors and business staffers. The paper supports itself financially and does not receive financial support from the university or from alumni donations. The paper currently has an endowment of 1.3 million dollars. No staff member on the 'Prince' is paid.
The Daily Princetonian's offices are housed at 48 University Place, Princeton, N.J., on the western edge of the university's main campus, between Lockhart Hall and Foulke Hall, just down University Place from the U-Store, the university convenience store. The paper's editorial staff consists entirely of Princeton students. Daily operations at the Prince are run by the Editor-in-Chief, who directs the editorial side of the paper, and the Business Manager, who directs the business and financial side. The Business Manager and the Editor-in-Chief report independently to the newspaper's board of trustees, in order to prevent business and editorial matters from mixing.
The Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager are chosen in December and appoint the remainder of their respective boards. The current Editor-in-chief is Sarah Sakha and the business manager is Matt McKinlay. Those boards take control of the newspaper with the beginning of the second semester, in February. The editorial boards serve for two semesters. Typically, the Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager begin their service in the spring of their junior year and complete their service in the winter of their senior year. This staggered system was created in part to allow graduating seniors time to finish their senior theses.
The first woman elected editor of the Prince was Anne C.Mackay- Smith, Class of 1980; Judy E. Piper, Class of 1976, was the first woman business manager.
The staff is grouped into several sections, including news, sports, opinion, photography, copy editing, multimedia, design, business and web.
In December 2006, Larry DuPraz, a long-time employee of the newspaper who directed its publication and guided its editors from 1946 to 1987, died from heart disease at the age of 87. In 2012, the paper's digitized archives was formally launched and named in his honor.
In January 2007, the Prince caused controversy when it published a fictitious editorial in its "joke issue" regarding the Jian Li lawsuit. Some Asian groups complained for its use of offensive stereotypes, which included portrayals of Asian-Americans as people who cook greasy food and wash clothes. The Prince issued a statement concerning its motivations and expectations for the piece, stating that it did not mean to be offensive but rather satirical.
Elena Kagan '81, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Jacob D. Beam '29, U.S. Ambassador
Denny Chin '75, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, presided over U.S. v. Madoff
Shelby Cullom Davis '30, U.S. Ambassador and founder of Concerned Alumni of Princeton
Robert H. McBride '40, U.S. Ambassador
Livingston T. Merchant '26, U.S. Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson '22, Governor of Illinois, Democratic Party Nominee for President in 1952 and 1956, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Woodrow Wilson 1879, president of Princeton University, Governor of New Jersey and President of the United States
Charles Woodruff Yost '28, American Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
H. Chapman Rose '28, Under Secretary of the Treasury
Nelson P. Rose '31, General Counsel of the Treasury
James H. Douglas, Jr. '20, Secretary of the Air Force
James Forrestal '15, first United States Secretary of Defense
John Marshall Harlan II '20, Supreme Court justice
Massie Ritsch '98, Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs & Outreach at U.S. Department of Education
Chris Lu '88, former White House cabinet secretary
James H. Billington '50, Librarian of Congress
Charles Fried '56, former United States Solicitor General and Harvard Law School professor
Joseph Nye '58, former dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government and international relations expert
Clifford J. Levy '89, New York Times deputy metro editor
Rick Klein '98, ABC News Political Director
Griff Witte '00, Washington Post deputy foreign editor
Zach Goldfarb '05, Washington Post White House reporter
Robert Caro '57, Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer
Grant Wahl '96, Sports Illustrated senior writer
Doug Lederman '84, co-founder and editor of Inside Higher Ed and former editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education
Barton Gellman '82, editor at The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winner
Joel Achenbach '82, writer for The Washington Post and author of the Post's Achenblog
R.W. Apple, Jr. '57, writer for The New York Times
Peter Elkind '80, Fortune Magazine editor-at-large
Hamilton Fish Armstrong '14, editor of Foreign Policy
William Attwood '41, U.S. Ambassador and publisher of Newsday
Kate Betts, '86, editor of Harper's Bazaar
John N. Brooks, Jr. '42, author and staff member, The New Yorker
Peter D. Bunzel '49, op-ed page editor, Los Angeles Times
Bosley Crowther '28, film critic at the New York Times
Frank Deford '61, writer for Sports Illustrated and broadcaster on U.S. radio and television.
F. Scott Fitzgerald '17, novelist and short-story author.
Richard Just '01, executive editor, The New Republic
Donald Kirk '59, national correspondent, Chicago Tribune
Richard Kluger '56, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and book publisher
John B. Oakes '34, editorial page editor, The New York Times
Don Oberdorfer '52, writer for The Washington Post, current professor at Johns Hopkins University
Norimitsu Onishi '92, reporter for The New York Times
T.R. Reid '66, former correspondent, The Washington Post and bestselling non-fiction author.
James Ridgeway '59, editor and writer, New Republic and Village Voice
Mark Stevens '73, film critic for New York Magazine and co-author of De Kooning: An American Master
John Stossel '69, ABC News anchor/correspondent
Annalyn Swan '73, co-author of 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning De Kooning: An American Master, current member of the Prince Board of Trustees
Robert McLean '13, publisher, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
John S. Martin '23, managing editor, Time Magazine
Thomas E. Weber '89, columnist, The Daily Beast and former Wall Street Journal bureau chief
Christine Whelan '99, contributor to Wall Street Journal and others, author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
William Greider '58, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and former reporter for Rolling Stone and PBS Frontline.
William Henry Rentschler '49, former reporter for Minneapolis Star Tribune, UPI and Chicago Sun-Times.
Robin Herman '73, Associate Dean for Research Communications at Harvard School of Public Health and former reporter for The Washington Post and The New York Times
Jose M. Ferrer III '61, associate editor, Time Magazine
Dori Jones Yang '76, International Business Editor, Bureau Manager in Hong Kong and Bureau Manager in Seattle during career for Business Week
Catherine Rampell '07, founding editor of New York Times Economix blog. Washington Post columnist
Jennifer Epstein '08, Politico White House reporter
Roben Farzad '98, Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter
Lou Jacobson '92, PolitiFact senior writer
Brian Rokus '99, CNN
Ian Shapira '00, Washington Post enterprise reporter
Gabriel Debenedetti '12, Reuters White House reporter
Naomi Nix '10, Chicago Tribune reporter
Silla Brush '04, Bloomberg reporter
Noam Levey '93, Los Angeles Times healthcare reporter
Shirley Leung '94, Boston Globe business editor
Rodney Ho '91, Atlanta Journal Constitution blogger
Katherine Shaver '91, Washington Post transportation reporter
Julia Boorstin '00, CNBC media reporter
Matt Boyle '97, Bloomberg Businessweek
Noah Trister '01, Associated Press sports reporter
Justin Pope '97, Associated Press higher education reporter
Bert Robinson '83, San Jose Mercury News managing editor
Kathy Kiely '77, Sunlight Foundation managing editor
Andrew Pollack '75, New York Times business reporter
Edward W. Barrett '32, Dean, Columbia School of Journalism
John V. Fleming GS '63, emeritus professor at Princeton and long-time columnist.
Richard Halliburton '21, world traveler, explorer, and writer
Henry A. Laughlin '14, president, Houghton Mifflin Company
John D. Rockefeller III '29, philanthropist
Henry Burchard Fine 1880, dean of sciences at Princeton and namesake of Fine Hall on the Princeton campus.
